Lionel Blue Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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I love to push myself.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.
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'Ain't It Fun,' which is about entering the real world, is bouncy and shows off Paramore's lighter side, to the dismay of some of the band's fans, who are used to the punk-rock sound.
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Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.
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You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.
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It's more fun to watch without joining in.
